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UNITED STAjTTss FATENT OFFICE.

l ALEXANDER REINHOLD AND FRANK. J. REINI-IOLD, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNORS TO THE DETROIT COMBINATION TOOL COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINATION-Tool..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 491,189, dated February 7, 1893` Application filed November 1891. Serial No. 410,901. (No model.)

To all whom t may con/cern.'

Be it'known that we, ALEXANDER REIN- HOLD and FRANK. J. REINHOLD, citizens of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in a Combination-Tool; and we declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in a combination tool, and it consists of the devices and appliances their combinations, construction and arrangement hereinafter described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure l is a view in side elevation illustrating our invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a separate view of one ofthe individual tools. Fig. 4 is a cross section on the line x-x Fig. l. Fig. 5 is a cross section on the line y-y Fig. l.

The object of our invention is to provide in a single implement a combination of v a-Y rions tools in common use, in a convenient and simple form, whereby any one of the various tools may readily be moved into position for use, and whereby any and all tools not in use may be moved quickly out of the Way and held in place, the combined instrument being simple and strong, the individual tools being held in position for use, or out of the Way, as may be desired, in a irm manner, yet in such a way, and by such devices, as to permit any desired change of tools being made, expeditiously. A

We carry out our invention as follows:

A denotes the body of the combination tool provided with a shank A to fit any desired brace or holder. This body is provided with a tool holder, such as, for example, a tubular socket A2, at its outer end, and with a cut away channelv or groove A3 leading to the tubular socket or holder A2. The walls of said socket are provided with a detent or latch A4, a spring washer A5 bearing against said latch. Said spring may be secured upon the face of the socket walls, as shown. We do not, however, limit ourselves to any specilic form of a spring latch.

B represents various individual tools, such, l

for example, as a screw drivel', gimlet, reamer, drillor other desired tools suitable for such a combination device. These individual tools, Whatever be their design or adaptation, may be constructed, preferably, with a rounded heel b provided with a stop (9.

C denotes a magazine cylinder rotatable on the rear end of the body A forward of the shank. Said cylinderis formed with a series of chambers C' corresponding in number to the number of tools B, and formed to receive the heels of the individual tools B, when not in use, said tools, in said position lying along side the body longitudinally therewith. Said chambers may be slotted as shown at c to vreceive the stops b of the tools and permit of their reciprocation in said charnbers. r

In line longitudinally with the channel A3, and at the rear extremity of said channel, the body is provided with a spring bed piece D preferably having a concaved outer face, the

lateral edges of which, when the bed piece is .free to move, project outward beyond the periphery of that portion of the body A underlying the chambered cylinder. By this construction the cylinder will be prevented from rotation when the bed piece is in normal position. The construction is such however that the heel of one of theindividual tools may be inserted upon the outer end of the bed piece, depressing it, and allowing the tool to be moved back into the chamber of the cylinder.

When this is done the springs of the bed piece, as the coiled springs d, located therebeneath, force the heel of the individual tool into contact with the cylinder, pressing the stop through the slot thereof and firmly holding the tool in place when it is out of use. When the tool is in place the bed piece is yet depressed and consequently its lateral edges are out of the way so that the cylinder may be rotated, carrying the individual tools about the body therewith so that any desired tool may be brought into line with the groove ot' the body. When this has been done, it is evident that the forward end of the individual IOO tool may be pressed into the groove A3 of the body, and run forward through the tubular socket until its heel is engaged therein in which position the individual tool is held firmly by the spring latch. By operating the spring latch the tool may be withdrawn or run back out of the socket to its position in the chambered sleeve.

The body may be provided with any suitable tool holder at its outer end. The body A may be rounded toward the shank thereof, and under the cylinder to form the under Wall A of the chambers, so that when the heels of the tools are in the chambers they are located upon the body. The rotation of the cylinder will thus obviously turn the various individual tools sucessively one after another about upon th-e bed piece in place to be run forward into the tool holder. A ferrule E is secured upon the body at the end adjacent to the shank and to the cylinder, as shown, preventing the rearward movement of the cylinder, while a Washer F engaged upon the body forward of the'rear flanged end C2 of the cylinder prevents its forward movement'. A pin D extended across the bed piece holds the latter in place.

We do not limit ourselves to constructing the tools B with a round heel, as shown, as the heel may be of any desired form, the chambers and the holder A2 in the cylinder being shaped to correspond. The forward end of the cylinder C is open and may be flanged inwardly toward the body as shown to form a stop or shoulder to prevent the tools falling out of their sockets in the revolving cylinder when out of line with the groove AB. The body is recessed as shown to receive the spring bed piece D. The slots 0, it will be observed are out into the forward end of the cylinder to permit the ready insertion of the stopon the heel of the individual tool.

It is obviously a matter of great convenience to have the individual tools exposed outside the engagement of their shanks in the magazine cylinder, as thereby any desired tool, when broughtinto position, can be readily grasped, directly, and pressed downward into the groove A3 and run forward into the tool holder.

What we claim is:

l. In acombination tool, the combination of of said tools formed with a stop at its shank to engage in said slot, said cylinder and slots open at the forward end thereof adjacent to the forward end of the shanks in place therein, substantially as described.

2. In a combination tool holder, the combination of a longitudinally grooved body provided with a tool holder at one end, a magazine cylinder rotatable about said body at the opposite end, a series of tools having their Shanks engaged in the cylinder, said cylinder formed with an inwardly turned iiange at its forward end adjacent to the forward end of said shauks and engaged therewith when the tools are in place, to hold the tools in position, substantially as described.

3. In a combination tool holder, the combination with a longitudinally grooved body provided with a tool holder at one end, of a magazine cylinder rotatable about the body at the opposite end, a series of tools having their shanks engaged in the cylinder,` the forward end of said cylinder termina-ting at the forward end of the shanks of the tools and open to receive said Shanks, and a device to control the admission and discharge of the tools into and from said cylinder, substantially as described. v

4. In a combination tool hol-der, the combination of a longitudinally grooved body provided with a tool holder at one end, a rotatable magazine cylinder at the opposite end, a series of tools having their shanks engaged in said magazine cylinder and exposed foi'-,

ward of said cylinder, said cylinder open at its forward end to receive the Shanks of the tools, and means to control the admission and discharge of the shanks of the tools into and from said cylinder, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

ALEXANDER REINHOLD. FRANK. J. REINHOLD. Witnesses:

N. s. WRIGHT, J oHN F. MILLER. 

